As part of the SOIB’s Technological Modernisation and Infrastructure Plan, the Mateu Enric Lladó office is closing its doors today to carry out a refurbishment and expansion of the facilities it shares with the State Public Employment Service (SEPE). For this reason, from Tuesday 20th September and for the duration of the works, it will be provisionally located in the former headquarters of the SOIB Central Services at Camino Viejo de Bunyola, 43, 1º, the building of the Asima roundabout, in the Son Castelló industrial estate. Thus, the only days it will be closed will be 16 and 19 September, but service will continue to be provided to renew the demand or make an appointment through the website www.soib.es, the mobile app, or by calling 012 or 971 225 791.
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This comprehensive reform, which will begin this September, is part of the Programme for the Improvement and Modernisation of the SOIB Office Network and will involve an investment of €2,290,276. Of this budget, the SEPE is subsidising a maximum amount of €843,600, which is included in the Pla Renove, which finances the renovation of facilities and equipment for state employment offices with SEPE staff. In addition to the Programme for the Improvement and Modernisation of Public Services, the SEPE contributes €1,086,018 and the rest is from the Autonomous Community’s own funds.
The office in Mateu Enric Lladó street serves a very high number of users from different districts of Palma, and the towns of Llucmajor, Algaida and Santa Eugènia. To date, the number of registered applicants to whom it provides services is 10,742.
The building has a total built area of 1,011.56 m2, in which SOIB (26) and SEPE (19) staff work. It consists of an underground floor which occupies 32.7% of the site and is used as an archive, and a ground floor and first floor which occupy 100% of the site. It also has a central service area, a wide staircase and open spaces where the workers are distributed.
The building is assigned to the SOIB as a heritage asset. The last renovation was carried out more than 20 years ago, so its current state makes it advisable to intervene to modernise the facilities, comply with current regulations and adapt them to the requirements of accessibility, quality and comfort for people.
The works will reorganise and adapt the premises and include a training room on the first floor to provide a more direct and personalised service to citizens, as well as the installation of photovoltaic panels to improve energy efficiency. The new office will have open spaces in which to carry out collaborative search processes and improve employability, with computer equipment and free wifi connection.
The works to adapt the office are expected to begin during the last quarter of the year, so that the move to the remodelled facilities will take place during 2024.
SOIB infrastructure improvements
The improvement and modernisation of the SOIB’s network of offices is one of the priorities of the Quality Occupation Plan 2021-2025.
Since the last legislature, the SOIB has made improvements in all the offices to offer more personalised, quality attention to all citizens.
In 2000, when the SOIB was created, it had a network of 7 employment offices distributed throughout the Balearic Islands, which has now been extended to 16 offices and 2 of its own training centres:
- 5 offices in Palma
- 5 offices in Mallorca: Inca, Alcúdia, Magaluf (Calvià), Manacor and Felanitx
- 2 offices in Menorca
- 3 offices in Eivissa
- 1 office in Formentera
Apart from setting up the new office in Eivissa and creating the new SOIB office in Santa Eulària, other infrastructures have been expanded and improved, such as the renovation of the air conditioning installations at the Inca office and the lease of a new building to house the new offices for the Sant Antoni area.
In addition, since February, all of the SOIB’s central services have been located in a new building in the Son Rossinyol industrial estate, distributed over two floors to improve organisational and management efficiency, and where 225 people work.
Finally, this year will also see the tendering of the works for the new office of Guidance, Entrepreneurship and Accompaniment and Innovation for Employment (COE) which, with the financing of the MRR funds, will constitute a benchmark for the design of innovative actions, the evaluation of guidance and intermediation methodologies and services, the identification and promotion of good practices, and the recognition of the needs and specialised training of guidance and intermediation staff.